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Hi everyone, and thank you for joining us for the 479th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and for those of you tuning in,

we're recording this episode in front of an audience of students at Chapman University, where I'm a trustee professor.

My guest today is a fantastic actor whose journey from 1980's child stardom in films like 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and 1985's The Goonies,

to an Oscar nomination this year for everything everywhere all at once, is nothing short of incredible.

A 51-year-old Vietnamese born man, he was, as the Associated Press put it, one of the most incredible faces and voices of the 1980's.

And as GQ noted, he was also, at the time, one of the only visible Asian faces in any Western media,

much less two of the biggest blockbusters on the planet.

And then, for more than two decades, he disappeared from the public eye, but not from the business he loved.

The story of his return to acting, which has resulted in Gotham Golden Globe Critics' Choice New York Film Critics Circle,

Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and National Society of Film Critics Awards,

as well as a BAFTA nomination and pending Spirit Saga and Academy Award nominations, could be a movie itself.

Indeed, he is now poised to become the first Asian male to ever win an individual Saga Award for acting in film,

and only the second Asian performer to ever take home the best supporting actor Oscar,

the first since Heingess Nore for the Killing Fields 38 years ago.

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